Improvement in shoes



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Shnes. l v a N0 155 255 I I I Patented Sept.22,1874

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MURPHY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,255, datedSeptember 22, 1874 application filed March 11, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, JOHN MURPHY, of Boston, of the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Shoes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ofwhich Figures 1 and 2 are opposite side elevations of a shoe or booteeupper made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 is a view of thepattern or mode of cutting the outer leather or material or upper,which, with the exception of the under stay or button-lapels connectingand supporting strip, is one single piece of material.

In Fig. 3 the outer boundary or form of the piece, with the exception ofa button-lap, or series of lapels, k k, 850., arranged as shown, isrepresented at c d e b h i g fa.

The piece of leather, cut as described, is to be folded on the lines a band g h, whereby a portion, A, 'on one side of the folding-line a b,will lap upon the part B, to the right of the said line. The part 0,beyond the foldingline g h, is to be turned down upon the part B, and soas to extend over and lap upon the part A, or over its edge at e d, theportion 0 being subsequently sewed to the portion A, where the two lapon each other. Each of .the lapel's k is to be turned over upon thesection A, and provided with a button-hole, to button upon one of aseries of buttons, 1, fixed to each section A, or arranged as shown. Isew the lap, or series of lapels k, to a staypiece, m, of leather orother suitable material, extended along underneath them, or between themand the part A, and I form the buttonholes through the stay, as well asthrough the lapels, of which there are six in number shown in thedrawings. The number of them, however, may be varied, or be greater orless, as circumstances may require.

The upper thus made may be lined and finished in any proper manner.

The upper formed as shown is, before being sewed together, to be crimpedat the back, or along the line a b, so as to curve it in manner asrepresented at 0 p q in Figs. 1 and 2, in order to have it fit to theback of the heel and leg, such crimping being done by a crimpingmachine,which will draw the leather and stretch it upon a proper form.

From the above and the drawings, it will be seen that the lapels k arecut from the leather or material intervening between the portions B andO.

In a former application for a patent made by me such was not the case,so much of the leather being wasted, the lapels being out so as toproject from that edge of the piece which is represented by the line 0 din Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings. The piece had necessarily to belonger than the pattern shown in Fig. 3 by the amount required to formthe lapels; and thus, in comparison to my present plan of forming thepiece with the lapels is, there would be not only the waste, asexplained, but a greater amount of material would be required in theformation of the pattern.

I claim- 1. In a shoe or bootee, the upper having the series of lapels70 extended from the part B, and cut from the material interveningbetween it and the vamp part 0, all as described and shown.

2. In combination with the upper, cut as described, with the series oflapels, the connectionpiece m, extended underneath and fastened to theseveral lapels, all as specified.

JOHN MURPHY.

WVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

